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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Batuman, Elif, 1977- author.     Subjects     Women college students -- Fiction.     Turkish Americans -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Batuman, Elif, 1977- author.       by title:      The idiot / Elif Bat...         MARC Display

The idiot / Elif Batuman. by Batuman, Elif, 1977- author. New York City : Penguin Press, 2017. Subjects Women college students -- Fiction.   Turkish Americans -- Fiction.   Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781594205613 (hardback) : 1594205612 (hardback) Description:  423 pages ; 24 cm Requests:  1 Summary:  "The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself.The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked out 07/05/2024 Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Fiction BATUMAN Realistic Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Lost 04/13/2023 Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked out 07/12/2024 Add Copy to MyList Laupahoehoe P/S Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked out 07/15/2024 Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Fiction Batuman   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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